Facilities Names at UNI

This is an attempt to list all extant and officially namedbuildings, parts of buildings, and spaces on the campus of the University of Northern Iowa. Information for this list came primarily from campus publications as well as files of the Advisory Committee on the Naming of University Facilities.

It is unlikely that a list like this can ever be complete. Consequently, additions and corrections are always welcome.

named in 2003 for Elinor Crawford, member of the physical education faculty, 1949-1979, and William Thrall, member of the physical education faculty, 1960-1992; both served as long-time heads of their departments.

named in 2008 for William and Charlotte Hinson, on the recommendation of their children, alumnus Richard Hinson and his sister Carol Hinson Driver, who made a donation of $250,000, in memory of their parents.

Holmes Hall (in ROTH Complex)

residence hall;

named in 1995 for Mavis L. Holmes, Associate Dean of Students, 1958-1971, and Dean of Students, 1971-1973.

has gone through many names and functions; built in 1890 as a residence and known as the President's Cottage; after the President's House was completed in 1911, the building became the College Hospital; from 1924-1926 it was a laboratory house for Home Economics; from 1926-1928 it was an early childhood education center; from 1928 until 1932 it was the home for President Emeritus Seerley and his wife Clara, and following his death in 1932 it was Mrs. Seerley's home until her death in 1934; from 1935 until 1970 it was the home of the Dean of the Faculty (analgous to our current office of Provost); from 1971-2004 it was the home of the Ethnic Minorities Cultural and Education Center; since that time it has been the home of the Honors Program.

named in 1994 for Donald F. Howard, member of the history faculty,1947-1977, who also served in administrative positions including department head and dean; furnishing of room made possible by donation of Professor Howard's widow.

the name Regents Hall was initially applied in 1961 to just the first unit (later named Rider Hall) of the complex and then was modified, perhaps unofficially, and applied to the whole complex as it developed.

known by the functional name of The Library after the completion of its construction in 1912; now an office building;

in anticipation of the construction of the new Library, the Regents approved a name change to Seerley Hall in 1961, to honor Homer Horatio Seerley, president of UNI, 1886-1928; name actually applied in 1964, when the new Library (now Rod Library) opened.